Open AccessA Patchwork Family: The Struggle for Survival in Pölsler’s Austrian Movie Die Wand
Author(s) -
Eckhard Rölz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of advance research in social science and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2208-2387
DOI - 10.53555/nnssh.v2i4.211
Subject(s) - german , order (exchange) , isolation (microbiology) , sociology , art , art history , aesthetics , visual arts , psychology , history , business , archaeology , finance , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
The movie Die Wand (2013) was hugely successful in the German-speaking world and once dubbed, also in other countries. It is often described as a film depicting a woman living in utter isolation cut off from any social contact. I, however, argue that the protagonist, though she is without any human contact, creates a family-like order with the animals that have flocked to her. She is the dominant mother figure who takes care of her“children” and defends them when needed.